Aweber Alternative
Alternatives to Aweber
All bloggers know about Aweber, the famous $20 a month Auto respond company that allows your visitors to sign up for your program. The twist of the Auto responder program is that when a user signs up using Aweber, he’ll be automatically added to your Feedburner Feed count.
Most bloggers love to have a high feed count as it makes their blog way more valuable. Advertisers are always looking for blogs that have a high readership, and the higher your feed count is the more likely you are to have people begging to advertise in your blog.
The alternative
Since I recently released my Get started Blogging E-book, I needed a way to contact my Subscribers and have them in a mailing list. I searched on Google but I found nothing except Aweber, but since that was my first E-book I decided that paying the $20 dollar a month subscription for Aweber was not wise, so I decided that I would have to do something on my own, and indeed I did (Note that this only works with people that have Cpanel, or any other form of Auto responder.
- Log in to your Cpanel, and look for an Icon that says “Auto Responders” and click on it.
- Look for a button that says “Add Auto-responder” and click it.
- You will then be presented with a form. Fill everything out, and do not miss anything. You can add wathever E-mail address that you want, but make sure the e-mail was not used before or else you’ll start to get weird messages.
Fill out the form, and on the body simply add whatever you want. It could be a download link or it could just be a thank you. When you are done click on “Create/modify” and you’ll be done. - Now that you are done creating your auto responder Go to your Feedburner account and log in, then click on the “Publicize tab”
- Once you’ve clicked on the Publicize tab, look at the left sidebar for a link that says “Communication Preferences” under the “Subscription Management”. (If you have this feature disabled, then please enable it).
- Now you will see a form, you have to fill it out with the correct E-mail address where you’ve set up your Autoresponder.
On the box where it says “Confirmation E-mail body”, ask your visitors to please do a short reply to that E-mail, and when they do that, the E-mail will be sent to your Auto Responder, and the link to whatever E-book, or program you want them to download will be sent to them.
This should be saving you about $20 dollars a month. The only downside to this, is that your reader will have to work for 5 seconds to reply to the E-mail in order to make this work.
If you are not cheap like me, then just sign up for Aweber and save yourself the time.
That is a pretty cool alternative, but I highly recommend Aweber. It’s more than just an auto-responder. You can broadcast messages to your leads whenever you want, have scheduled broadcasts, it is great.
I do a lot of PPC marketing and I already have good conversion rates, but once I added Aweber to my landing pages, my conversion rates skyrocketed. Some people just need that little touch of personalization, and Aweber offers them that personalization.
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I wish my site had CPanel, as I would certainly try this. However, I’m with GoDaddy, and there just doesn’t seem to be the flexibility I would really like.
I haven’t figured out whether to go with GetResponse or AWeber. But I’d better decide and implement fast… my new ebook minisite has been up for 2 weeks now. I’m still working on it, but meanwhile, I suspect I’m missing out on capturing lots of good names.
Vigi I would suggest you go with Aweber, they integrate with Feedburner I am not sure about Get Response. I use Aweber I just had to sign up with them seem that they provide very reliable support and it’s very easy to get set up.
I was using Get Response, and honestly it gets a low low review from me, My deliverability was less than 40% and thats only mailing 1 time a day… I plan to go the aweber route and not worry.
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I highly recommend Aweber, it can save you a whole lot of time
Your solution was very creative and would still be useful for anybody who doesn’t want to spend the $20 per month on Aweber.
Hello,
I use DLGuard software to process digital downloads. To handle my autoresponder/email marketing script, I found DLGAdvance. Its a pretty handy little tool that has most of the same features. It actually automatically works with DLGuard as an Aweber Alternative. Don’t know the rules on posting links, so just do a google search for DLGAdvance.
There is also MailChimp.com – it is free for up to 500 subscribers.
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Thanks for the great info – I enjoyed reading it! I always enjoy looking at this blog.
Thanks for this information. I would love to use aweber, but spending money for something that I can do myself seems to be a better way to do business. $20 a month there does not really do much for you if you want to have a big list, so Thanks!!
GT2buy, I totally agree that if you can do it yourself for free and better there is no need to use these services. Some people would rather have them through a managed company though. Nice website by the way =)
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